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Beauty Parade

Country: US
Total Issues: 85

Pin-up magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1941 – Feb-1956

(possibly non-fiction)

Publishers:   Beauty Parade Inc., NY; Harrison Publications [by v.5 n.1]
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Beaver

Country: US

Subtitled "The Wildlife Magazine". Often published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1976 – Mar-1984:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Q.M.G. Magazines



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Bedside Clubman

Country: UK
Total Issues: 9?

Issues & Index Sources:  1951 – 1953?: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers:   Bayard Productions (London 1951) Ltd., 30 Cork Street, London W.1
Editors:   Maurice Moiseiwitsch; Gerald Kelsey (Assistant Editor)



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Bedside Detective Casebook

see under Detective Casebook

Bedtime Stories

Country: US

Risque Stories and Illustrations with Nude Photos. Revived briefly c. 1939/40.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1932 – 1940?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  Nov-1932 – Sep-1934: Regal Publishing Co.
  Oct-1934 – Jun-1937: Detinuer Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware
  Jul-1937 – Aug-1938?: D.M. Publishing

Prices

25c

Pagecounts

68pp

Mentioned in: Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps



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Bedtime Stories (UK)

Country: UK

Believed to be a British reprint edition of Bedtime Stories although the issues list a US publisher and price.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers: B.T. Publishing Co., Inc., Dover, DE


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Bedtime Tales [1930s]

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)


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Bedtime Tales [1940s]

Country: Canada

Subtitled "A Magazine of Good Humour"; unclear if it ran any fiction but it seems likely.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Pagecounts: 96pp

The Bee

Country: UK

A review/miscellany. Most stories anonymous. May have published Richard Adams Locke; vol. 2 entitled The Queen Bee and vol.3 The Working Bee.

Issues & Index Sources: 1820 – 1823

Publishers:   published in Liverpool
Formats:   octavo
Frequency:   semi-monthly
Mentioned in:   British Literary Magazines Vol. 1

Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine

see under The Boy's Own Magazine (UK)

Beeton's Christmas Annual

Country: UK

A successful paperback magazine notorious for insulting satires on the royal family and associated hangers-on. The 1887 issue contained the first Sherlock Holmes story "A Study in Scarlet".

Issues & Index Sources: 1860 – 1897:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Ward, Lock, and Tyler
Editors:   Samuel Orchart Beeton
Frequency:   annual
Related Sites:   Wikipedia
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust

Beginnings

Country: US

Subtitled "a magazine for the novice writer".

Issues & Index Sources: 1998 – ?

Website:   www.scbeginnings.com
Publishers:   Jenine Boisits
Editors:   Jenine Boisits
Formats:   8" x 10"
Prices:   $5.50
Frequency:   thrice-yearly

Behind the Mask

Country: US
Total Issues: 71

Facsimile reprints of classic pulp stories.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1989 – Winter 2005:

Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers

Fading Shadows, Inc.

Editors

Tom & Ginger Johnson

Prices

$5.00

Frequency

  May-1989 – Fall 1991: quarterly
  Jan-1992 – May-1995: bimonthly
  Summer 1995 – Winter 2005: quarterly



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Behind the Scene

see under Scene

The Belfast Magazine and Literary Journal

Country: Ireland

Issues & Index Sources:  1825

Publishers:   Morgan Jellett, Commercial Buildings, Belfast
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust

The Belfast Monthly Magazine

Country: Ireland
Total Issues: 77

A general magazine that very, very occasionally published fiction

Issues & Index Sources: 1808 – 1814

Publishers:   published in Belfast
Editors:   Dr. William Drennan
Frequency:   monthly

Belford, Clark & Co. Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 550

Identical to the Keystone Library distributed by John Wanamaker.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1890s:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Belford, Clarke, & Co., Chicago
Formats:   7 x 5 3/4"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   250-300
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Belford's Chatterbox

Country: US

Stories, poems, news events of the day, educational information -- a wide ranging collection of reading for young readers.

Issues & Index Sources: 1884 – 1890

Publishers:   Belford, Clarke, & Co., Chicago
Editors:   Thomas W. Handford
Frequency:   annual

The Belford Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1899: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Alexander Belford & Co., 277 Dearborn St., Chicago, IL
Prices:   25c
Frequency:   semi-monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography